Michelle Van Loon

We’ve been to Israel three times in the last two years. Bill has been there because he’s serving a three-year term on the board of the Caspari Center located in Jerusalem. And I have been there because there’s no way…

Yes, Israel was amazing. And yes, I’ll have more to share about this trip in weeks to come. But after yesterday’s grueling trip back to Chicago, all I have to offer you today are some random observations penned while sitting…

Ben and his best man Jacob waiting at the altar. Rachel escorting her ringbearer sons. Do you? I do! Famile Van Loon, May 22, 2010 version We’re so grateful for Sarah – she’s a gift to Ben! Jacob sandwiched between…

Go. Be. Christ’s. Church. Those four words sum up Felicity Dale’s An Army Of Ordinary People: Stories Of Real-Life Men And Women Simply Being The Church (Tyndale/Barna, 2010). Dale and her husband have been involved in the simple church/house church…

Please. Read this. I wish someone could have explained this phenomenon to me three decades ago as lucidly as Naked Pastor put it in his post.   I’ve been fooled again by relationships I thought were friendships, but those relationships…

Most of us know a few bits about horse-and-buggy driving, technology-shunning Amish and conservative Mennonites. But unless we’ve grown up in the Dakotas or on the Canadian prairie, it is unlikely that we know much about their Anabaptist cousins, the…